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About Alf Gjessing
- Alf Gjessing (7 September 1864 – 6 July 1922) was a Norwegian engineer. He was born in Kristiania as a son of Mathias Dahl Gjessing and Amalie Beate Just.
- He was a nephew of Colonel Søren Christian Gjessing.
- In June 1896 he married Maja Riddervold Waage, a daughter of professor Peter Waage.He took his education at the Technical University of Hannover.
- He graduated in 1887, and returned to Norway to work for Thune.
- After a second stay in Hannover from 1890 to 1891, studying railway and bridge engineering, he found work in the Norwegian State Railways and Kristiania municipality.
- In 1895 he was employed as a teacher of mechanical technology at Kristiania Technical School (today a part of Oslo University College).
- He was promoted to professor in July 1911.From 1898 to 1900 he was the editor of machinery in Teknisk Ugeblad.
- He was also involved in the Norwegian Industrial Property Office and the Norwegian Association of Engineers.
- He died suddenly in July 1922, during a study trip with students to Magdeburg.
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